WEST WATERFORD: Auks calling close inshore at various locations; a juvenile Razorbill
stranded on the Cunnigar, Dungarvan, was put back to sea, and two young auks were seen being preyed on by Great Black-backed
Gulls.

RAM HEAD: Total of 96 large or recently-fledged Kittiwake chicks at study plots that
held 136 occupied nests on 14 June - 0.7 chicks per nest, much higher than usual here (though numbers of nests severely declined).

Note: Sightings listed here are
reports, not necessarily authenticated records. * = species for which the Irish Rare Birds Committee currently requires substantiating descriptions or photographs. Records are regularly updated, and older records
added or amended where necessary . Many thanks to observers who
provided records above - any further records (current or older) would be appreciated.

Please email any sightings, or
text details of scarcer species to 0861701599; to report sightings of rarities to the national Birds of Ireland News Service(BINS), phone 01-8307364.